Free Thanksgiving Activities for Speech Therapy (No Print!)

With Thanksgiving coming soon, it's the time of year to reflect on all that we're thankful for.... and for Speech-Language Pathologists, "no prep activities" has to be at the top of that list, am I right? 

While digital activities are a great way to save yourself some precious time, they're also an easy way to target articulation and language skills during the Thanksgiving season.

Whether you're a teletherapist or an SLP who loves to integrate technology into your sessions, you can't go wrong with interactive and engaging digital activities (with a fall theme) to target your students' speech and language goals. What's even better? A list of FREE ones! Check out each free download, each its own ready-to-use activity for a no-prep Thanksgiving activity.

Free Speech Therapy Thanksgiving Activities

Get ready to eat, drink, and download these FREE Thanksgiving activities to use in your November speech therapy lesson plans!

Thanksgiving Speech Lib Activity by Stacy Crouse is a PDF with fillable text boxes that auto-populate to create a funny story about Thanksgiving dinner. Instead of talking about pumpkin pie and other Thanksgiving foods, the story ends up being hilariously random. It's the perfect way for older students to work on any target sound (try sound-specific word lists) or language goal.

Thanksgiving Food Memory and Recall Boom™ Cards by Speak and Teach PH targets vocabulary identification and memory recall for 3 to 4 critical elements (or in this case, food items).

Thanksgiving Themed Uncover a Win Articulation Speech Game by Simply Speaking SLT is a PowerPoint game for articulation practice of /s, l, r, k, g, f, th, ch, sh/ and /s, l, r/ clusters. It's a fun way to get lots of articulation trials within a Thanksgiving-themed activity.

Thanksgiving Reward Activity Boom Cards by Language Speech and Literacy is an open-ended activity or reward that allows students to dress a turkey.

Thanksgiving Spatial Concepts Boom™ Cards by In Unison Speech Therapy provides practice for the concepts "near" and "far" using Thanksgiving meal dishes.

Thanksgiving Synonyms Tic Tac Toe for Google Slides™ by Build Words targets vocabulary building as students identify synonyms during two interactive games.

Thanksgiving Identical Matching Activity Boom™ Cards by Angie S targets is a great addition to your Thanksgiving speech therapy sessions with younger students who are working on vocabulary or matching real photographs.

Thanksgiving Compare and Contrast Boom™ Cards by Speechie Adventures uses a graphic organizer to work on describing and comparing and contrasting Thanksgiving objects.

Black Friday Video Lesson by Stacy Crouse is a 3-minute video that teaches kids about Black Friday, the major shopping day that happens the day after Thanksgiving. Students learn why it started, why it's called "Black Friday", and why retailers continue to offer Black Friday deals every year. It's a great language activity (and discussion starter!) for older students.

Thanksgiving Adapted Book and Mini Lesson by Speech Brain uses real photos and symbols to teach about Thanksgiving traditions. It also includes a communication board, comprehension page, and extension activity that would be perfect for a language group.

Minimal Pairs s/t Hide & Seek Speech Thanksgiving Theme Boom™ Cards by Little Speech Shop is a fun and interactive game that facilitates practice for s/t minimal pairs.

Thanksgiving Dinner Interactive Book by Katrina Bevan can be printed or used digitally with movable pieces (in TpT's Easel). It's a great way to target goals such as wh- questions, regular and irregular verbs, following directions, comprehension, and more with young children in language groups.

One thing I know we're all thankful for is TIME, so hopefully these no-print Thanksgiving-themed activities give you back some time this holiday season! For even more Thanksgiving time-savers, check out these digital Turkey Day speech and language activities. Happy Thanksgiving!

Originally posted on 11/05/2021. Updated on 10/16/25.

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